Show #50 (More covers)

Hello.  I was having some difficulty finding a theme for this week’s show, so I got back to one of my favourites — covers   Unfortunately, that got me another problem, choose four songs from my covers list, a problem I couldn’t find a solution to.  So, as I couldn’t really decide on the songs to leave out, this will be a long show with six, instead of the costumary four, videos of some covers I got reserved for a rainy day like today (actually, it was a nice sunny day, here at Quinta do Conde, albeit a bit cold).

The first song is a well known cover of a Danny Whitten song, that was a big hit by Rod Stweart, back in the seventies. But that’s not the cover that I’m bringing here — this actual cover was itself a hit more than ten years later and one of the songs that marked my young adulthood.  Here it is, Everything But The Girl playing I Don’t Want To Talk About It.

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Next, a cover of a song that must have been covered a hundred times — Ben E. King’s Stand by Me, here by John Lennon.

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I love Joy Division and I love The Cure, so this is a bit strange: Love Will Tear Us Apart, composed by the former and played by the latter.

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Tegan and Sara have recently been added to my list of preferred bands. The next song is a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark, another big hit of the eighties.

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Cowboy Junkies, on the other hand, have long been on my top of favourite bands.  The next video features a version of the classic Blue Moon.

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Finally, the last song is a cover by Cat Power of an Oasis song, Wonderwall.

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This is it, for today.  Next week, I hope, there will be another show.

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Tags: cowboy junkies, ben e king, oasis, tegan and sara, john lennon, bruce springsteen, cat power, the cure, danny whitten, rod stewart, everything but the girl, joy division

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